September 1, 2025 • 30 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (09/01) - Labor Day 2025 Best Of The John Kobylt Show. Jaime Page comes on the show to talk about the LA City Council official opposing SB79. More on the LA City Council opposing SB79. Gov. Newsom is a political chameleon.
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iHeartRadio app. The Los Angeles City Council actually did something right.
They voted eight to five to oppose a Senate bill.
Be familiar with this. If you live in this single
family house in California, they're coming to get you. Little
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by little, they're coming to get you. They want to
ruin your neighborhood. Senate Bill seventy nine. It would allow
people well developers to buy homes and set up apartment buildings.
If you're within a half mile of a heavy rail
or a subway station, they could put six story apartment
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buildings in your residential neighborhood. If you're near a rapid
bus line, they could put up a four story apartment building.
This affects thousands of lots. It'll be right across your
street right next door. Maybe on both sides. This is
from the bowels of Scott Wiener. He's a Democratic state
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senator from San Francisco, an ultra progressive. Hates single family homes,
hates them, hates cars, hates pools. I'm not overstating this.
Hates everything about about suburban life. Hates your middle class
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family existence. He hates your wife, he hates your husband,
he hates your children, he hates your lawn, he hates
your pets. I don't know why. I don't know what
happened in his childhood. But Tracy Park and John Lee
produced a resolution to oppose this, and I got an
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eight to five vote. We were going to talk with.
Jamie Page has been covering this closely from the West
Side Current, which is a great news site. Even if
you don't live on the West Side of LA, you
ought to read it because they they jump on these
kind of stories which not only affect LA, but affect
the whole the whole state, because Wiener's bill would effect everywhere. Welcome.
(02:37):
How are you, Jamie, I'm good, John, how about you?
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I was kind of surprised that this passed, that there
were at least eight eight city council people who opposed
it talk about how how this whole resolution debate went. Yeah,
it was it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Was not going to be heard that we heard early
beyond that the council President, Harris Dawson was actually going
to hold the resolution, which means it would not have
gone for a vote, and it is supposed to go
through the Assembly, so that means that hold would have
stopped us from presenting our resolution to the Assembly. Nineteen councils,
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our local councils opposed this. As you said, Council Member Lee,
it was a lot of back and forth and we were,
you know, it was unclear of what direction this was
going to take. But ultimately an eight to five vote
means that this resolution moves the Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right because eight is a majority, it's a bare majority
because there's fifteen members. Well, the way a councilwoman, Monica
Rodriguez writes, or what she said, is she said this
could allow up to seven story buildings in areas where
transit lines are still years away. So really, if somebody's
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in a house and the neighbor sells and developer comes,
they could put up a seven story apartment building. With
how many units in it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Good question about the units, but drew a really important
point before is there can be multiples of these as
well too, right, which can drastically change the makeup of
a neighborhood and enough high fire danger areas, which is
a large concern. Building these apartment buildings and looking for
an exit route can become a problem in areas like
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Monica Rodriguez's Comes Flum and Tracy Park Pacific Palisades. These
are really key details that have not been flushed out,
where as they say baked out in the Assembly, I
think also worth pointing out, and it gets a little
bit too much into the details, but to vote in
the Assembly could have killed this bill if they don't
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move it forward. So if the Assembly voted not to
move it out of where it is right now, it
wouldn't moved forward. And I think that's part of why
Harris Dawson wanted to stall the resolution coaches.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Right before the opposition gets too organized here because this
will produce a lot of negative stories and most people
don't know this thing even exists. I mean, we've talked
about it a number of times. But and there's also
no requirement for parking so if you get a seven
story apartment building, and I know people just don't believe this,
(05:29):
they can't imagine it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You might have been living on in your neighborhood for
fifty years and you can't imagine suddenly a big apartment
building next to you without adequate parking. But yeah, that's
exactly what will happen, and there could be another one
across the street from you. Is there a limit on
how many can be built on a block?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, there's not a limit, And that's part of what
part of the problem with this is there's not a
lot of thinking through how high, how many units that
they're going to put on, and there's actually not only
is there not a limit that's in there right now,
there's a lot of incentives for developers to build. The
closer to the to where it is, the more money
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you get for a project. But so we could see
some really neighborhoods that will identify if the state build passes.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And this is their thinking. You may wonder, what do
these single family neighborhoods, why do they Why are they
going to be victims just because there's a bus line
within a half mile. I'll give you an example where
I live, I'm within a half a mile of Sunset Boulevard.
Now I can't see Sunset Boulevard. I can't hear it.
It might as well be on the Moon. I'm far
enough away where Sunset Boulevard does not impact my life,
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but there's there's bus routes on it. And because I
likely fall within that half mile zone just because there's
a rapid bus line on Sunset Boulevard, then yeah, many
of my neighbors could build these apartment buildings. God knows
what the developers will pay them for the right to
use the lot, if they're going to make that kind
of money back. And suddenly I'm looking and a certain
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amount is going to be I'm sure a certain number
of the units will be forced to be low income housing.
And who doesn't want that in their middle class neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, almost housing.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That's already baked into parts of state laws already where
you have to have a certain amount of units or
else you pay a fee or fine if you don't.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So, yeah, we've already crossed that bridge.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right I know. So it's going to if they allow
this in residential areas, you will get low income housing
people in your neighborhood, and the idea is that the
idea is you have all this this high density housing
and there's a bus line down the block, and then
you use the bus line to take you to work.
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You see, they pack you in the apartment buildings and
then they pack you in the buses because they hate
your single family home and they hate your single family car.
And so you just follow the communist way dense housing,
bus lines, and you live the way they want you
to live.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And think this passes, it also takes away any of
this of the local voice, so our city council won't
be able to weigh in on these projects.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is that right? So the city council would be stripped
of any power.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, that's yes. That's the biggest part of today's vote
was that this would be a state wide bill. So
if it passes, it essentially eliminates any local power that
we have.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Oh my god, this is horrific. And it actually got
five votes. And next segment, I'm going to tell everybody
who the five are. You can guess if you follow
these things. It's the socialist contingent, all right, Jamie. So
now the votes in the Assembly, well, there's way.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's a procedural process us. But what it happens is
it goes through. It's on like our consent sort of
like our consent calendar.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But what happens in this process is it can be
pulled much like it did and then talked about, or
it can move forward. If it doesn't get pulled and
it gets killed, as I understand it, then it's no
longer moving forward. This bill has been it's.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Tightly gone through. It went through the Senate, I believe,
on the twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
One votes that it needed or the last committee.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Sorry, so it's barely squeaking through. If it doesn't, it
could be done or else. If not, it goes to
vote on I believe that's what I've been told.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The processes, yeah, yeah, and everything could change at the
moment's notice. All right, thank you very much, Jamie Page.
Of course, all right, Westside Current, Westside Current dot com.
I'll give you the names of these idiot council people,
I mean, these destructive buffoons, same people over and over
again when we come back.
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. We have never had so
many council people in Los Angeles who absolutely hate the
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American way of life, despise it. They are so they're
not even democrats, they're democratic socialists. This is the fringe
progressive element that has won a number of seats here
in Los Angeles and in other cities as well. The
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things you hear about are going on in Chicago and
New York, Washington, d C. It's very similar. It's it's
it's extreme progressiveness. It's insanity, really. And this particular vote
was about a resolution so that the City Council Los
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Angeles formerly opposes a Senate bill coming out of Sacramento
known as Senate Bill seventy nine, excreted from deep within
the bowels of Scott Wiener, and it means that somebody
could sell their their single family home in a normal
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residential neighborhood and it can be replaced by up to
a seven story apartment building with no provisions for parking,
no provisions for how that's going to affect escape routes
in fire areas. Part of the apartment building will be
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low income housing, and you could see what this would
do to ordinary, quot middle class, upper middle class neighborhoods.
And there's no living on how many And if you're
inside a half mile zone where there's a rail line
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or a bus line, even if it's just a proposed
rail or bus line, that'll happen. And of course it'll
destroy your property value, which is what they want. They
want you to panic and sell your homes. And so
they could put up one hundred of these in your
neighborhood and turn it from a nice middle class neighborhood
into some chaos zone with all the low income bet
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because they think our system is corrupt, hateful, racist, the
whole thing. No, we have no right to own property,
no right to profit from our property, no right to
a peaceful life, no right to be enjoying things like
our car, water, no pools, no lawns. I'm serious about this.
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So the idea is to cram you into this housing project,
these apartment buildings, and then force you to walk down
the street and take a bus to work. These progressives
always want to load you on a bus or a train,
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and they want you to live in a little tiny box.
Here are the people who support this, Nitia Ramen, who
is one of the great illegal alien homeless enablers. She
really loves homeless people. She wouldn't even put a stop
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to people selling guns and drugs from tents in front
of elementary schools. Nit the Aramen Hugo soda. Martinez constantly
agreeming about illegal aliens and homeless people. Current price. I
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believe he has eight to ten fell any charges against
him for corruption. And then Unices Hernandez, who has a
lot of intellectual challenges. She's another democratic socialist. And then
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one more dunnest man on the planet, Marquise Harris Dawson.
He's somehow the city council president. I don't think he
could talk and ty his shoelace. At the same time,
he was the one who's supposedly in charge of the
city when Karen Bass ran off to Ghana. He was
supposed to be in charge. There is no record that
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he said or did anything to prepare the city for
the winds and the fire. There is no record that
he responded in any meaningful way to the windstorm and
the fire. He is a complete dud. The only time
he's done anything that made the news is when he
banned people from cursing and hurling insults using bad language.
(15:24):
That's it, just suppressing speech. That's the only and uh,
here's some quotes. Hugo Soda. Martinez says that we have
not been responsible with our efforts to really spur housing growth.
So he wants your neighborhoods destroyed to put up seven
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story apartment buildings. Uh, at least there's at least there
were eight. You know you need eight because there's fifteen.
There's fifteen council people, so at worst it would have
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lost eight to seven. I guess two of the council
people didn't show up for work. I don't know, maybe
they were in jail. I can't keep track of all this,
but it's a third of the city council that would like,
really honestly, they would like to buildoze your homes, get
rid of your your stupid kids, your stupid pets, fill
your swimming pools, junk your cars, and just march you
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into the nearest bus. That's the life that you'll have
if they ever get a majority on the city Council.
Believe me, Karen Dass probably three quarters of the way
they are herself. She just keeps quiet. More coming up. Oh,
we're going to talk to We're going to talk next
about Uh. I know what we're gonna do. I just
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you'll have away.
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the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, I
really admire there's a few writers I really hold on
the upper echelon of admiration, and one of them is
Joel Kotkin, and he is a Presidential Fellow in Urban
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Studies at Chapman University. He's also does. He's a senior
research fellow at the University of Texas. Any writes in
a lot of publications, including Spiked online dot com. And
he's a he's been around a while, and he's a Democrat,
that's his nature. But he is so appalled by Gavin
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Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled Gavin Newsom
the Chameleon who destroyed California. And I let me just
tell you that Joe Cockin does not write incendiary things.
He's restrained, analytical. He's a scholar. He's an academic. And
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what he does here is he lays out what he's
done to California and how very little of this is
covered by the day to day media for all the
old tired reasons we always talk about. And he's now trying,
you know, to do this this this this Twitter thing
(19:00):
where he's or his staff and I don't think he
can type by himself. His staff puts out these Trump
like announcements and all the syncopans, Oh that's really cool.
Look at that. He's mocking Trump and it's like a
bad imitation. It's what like a high school kid would do.
It's really pathetic. I don't know how They don't see
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how pathetic it comes across. But you know in that
little bubble, Oh, look at that, he's taking it to Trump.
He's fighting. And then they had their own when they're
not imitating Trump Trump, they had their own peculiar nastiness.
And it's just no way to run a state, no
way to communicate with with the voters. He's got this
stupid redistricting idea. But here's what Katkin writes, Gavin Newsom
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may be saddled with an awful record, but the California
governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet in the
race for the presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight. How
is this possible? And he says the simple answer is
knew some might be the ultimate candidate for the attention
deficit generation. He's a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively,
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not according to facts, but whatever best seems to fit
the national mood. I'll give you one example. Here he
gives several. He was one of his core issues was
climate change, and as Cockkin writes, but in April, he
basically fell on his knees before big Oil after two
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companies said they were shutting down the California oil refineries.
He does something insanely irresponsible and stupid and dangerous, taxing
and regulating oil refineries out of business. And then when
they say, fine, we're getting out of here, it's like, oh,
what did I do? What did I do? What can
I do for you? We need oil, we need gas
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like a child, he says, after trying to appeal to
MAGA voters. After Trump's victory, he's back to leading the resistance.
But here's what he's actually done to the state. Here's
the resume. This is what's really important, he says. The
state was once the envy of the world, but now
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we have huge wealth concentrated in a few hands, and
we have half of America's homeless population. We have the
highest poverty rate in the US. We have the highest
unemployment rate in the US. And get this statistic, Almost
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twenty percent of Californians live in poverty and another third
live near poverty. Add that up, that's fifty percent. Fifty
percent of the state lives near or in poverty. Do
you ever see any of this discussed in any media form?
(22:03):
How do you have half the It's the biggest state
in the Union. It's almost forty million people. We have
twenty million near or in poverty. I saw it the
other day. Only fifteen percent of the public can afford
to buy a home. It is the single worst state
Cotkin rights for creating above average paying jobs, but it's
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number one for producing below average and low paying jobs.
California hemorrhaged one point six million above average paying jobs
in the last decade, more than twice as many as
any other state. We lost a million six above average
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paying jobs a million six and ten years since two
thousand and eight. It created five times as many low
wage jobs as high wage jobs. Few areas have exposed
the incompetence of Newsoan's economics than energy policy. California now
has the highest energy prices in the continental United States,
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thirty percent more than the national average because stupid green policies.
This has hugely increased day to day living costs for
poor and working families. Rising energy costs have led that
traditional blue collar jobs in construction, logistics, and manufacturing have disappeared.
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Even there's no California metro area that ranks in the
US top ten for well paying blue collar jobs, but
four cities are in the bottom ten. Ventoria Los Angeles,
San Jose, and San Diego bottom ten for well paying
blue collar jobs. On his watch, African Americans and Latinos
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in California perform far worse in terms of income and
homeownership than the rest of the country. Even immigrants because
there's a lack of good jobs and high housing costs,
are headed elsewhere. In the last decade, Los Angeles has
lost foreign born residents. They've been going to Houston, Dallas,
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Wartworth in Miami. Migration to California adjusted for population is
lower than virtually any other state. I got more coming up.
This is his record, this is what he's done to us,
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this is what he's done to you. And I'm reading
every day about a snarky tweet that some ahole and
his staff sent out, and that's cool. Look at this
indictment here. It is comprehensive. There's nothing he's touched that
hasn't turned to crap. He's destroyed the economy with his policies.
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We got more coming up.
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Round from one until four o'clock, with the podcast posted
after four o'clock. We were talking about a piece written
by Joel Cochin. He's a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
at Chapman University, among other things. And he wrote a
piece for Spiked online dot com Gavin Newsom the chameleon
who destroyed California, and this is all factual stuff. Either.
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He puts his opinion in here. He's a Democrat, but
his opinion is based on the facts I gave you,
and I'll just briefly run through them again in case
you're joining us. We have half of the homeless population
in the country. We have the highest poverty rate in
the US. We have the high unemployment rate in the US.
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If you add up people in poverty and people near poverty,
that's fifty percent of the state. It is the worst
state for creating above average paying jobs. We've lost a
million six above average paying jobs, twice as many as
any other state. Highest energy prices in the continental US
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thirty percent more in the national average. No California metro
area ranks at the top ten for well paying blue
collar jobs. Four are in the bottom ten. We're losing
even immigrants. We lost foreign born residents in the past decade.
They're going to Houston, Dallas, Worth in Miami, even with
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the highest percentage of billionaires in the US. We've got
these huge budget deficits. And the states that he criticizes,
Texas and Florida, have large budget surpluses, generate more jobs,
and have introduced tax cuts. Yeah, Florida and Texas budget surpluses,
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more jobs, tax cuts. Comparing, he says, compare this to
Newsom's bullet train farce. He refuses to kill this disastrous
high speed rail project, which devours billions of dollars of
taxpayer dollars, billions of taxpayer dollars. Its chances of being
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finished before he grows very old is increasingly remote, and
Copkin says more far more critical infrastructure needs such as
roads and water supply, have fallen behind the wayside. He
quotes a venture capitalist Mark Andresen, who said three years
ago compared California to the late decaying Roman Empire, and
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he says, the liberal media may ignore these issues like
they did with Joe Biden's mental deterioration, but the rest
of the country is not going to have the wool
pulled over its eyes so easily. And he says, people
here in California they know something is off. Most people
according to UC Berkeley poll say the state is headed
in the wrong direction by a two to one margin.
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Californian see him c Newsom is more concerned with being
president than being a decent governor. Only one in three
residents than California is a good place to achieve the
American dream, and an ally Time survey found that only
fifteen percent thought California was a model other states should copy.
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But he blusters on with his nonsense and lies and stupidity,
and now it's mimicking Trump's tweets. Now it's violating the
California constitution and redrawing the district lines because he wants
to fight Trump. I mean, he is a mental patient,
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a narcissistic ego bag, a manipulative narcissistic psychopath, and he's
done real, real, deep damage to the state. And he's
like after Karen Dass didn't prepare for the Big fire,
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ran off to Africa instead, is just enraging that he
is governor and that she is mayor for even another hour,
another minute, It's unbelievable. A massive incompetence, destructive in competence,
not this kind of laise faire. All well, it doesn't
really mean, no, this was aggressive incompetence and only can
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do is have his the weirdos on his staff, right,
stupid snarky tweet, and we're supposed to go, oh wow,
look at that, Look how he fights. Oh that's so clever. Man,
you're eight years old. This is an embarrassment. You're all
gonna get in the car and you're gonna pump your
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five dollars gas and not realize just how far the
place is gone. Huh. All right, more coming up temper
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iHeartRadio app. The Los Angeles City Council actually did something right.
They voted eight to five to oppose a Senate bill.
Be familiar with this. If you live in this single
family house in California, they're coming to get you. Little
(00:42):
by little, they're coming to get you. They want to
ruin your neighborhood. Senate Bill seventy nine. It would allow
people well developers to buy homes and set up apartment buildings.
If you're within a half mile of a heavy rail
or a subway station, they could put six story apartment
(01:06):
buildings in your residential neighborhood. If you're near a rapid
bus line, they could put up a four story apartment building.
This affects thousands of lots. It'll be right across your
street right next door. Maybe on both sides. This is
from the bowels of Scott Wiener. He's a Democratic state
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senator from San Francisco, an ultra progressive. Hates single family homes,
hates them, hates cars, hates pools. I'm not overstating this.
Hates everything about about suburban life. Hates your middle class
(01:51):
family existence. He hates your wife, he hates your husband,
he hates your children, he hates your lawn, he hates
your pets. I don't know why. I don't know what
happened in his childhood. But Tracy Park and John Lee
produced a resolution to oppose this, and I got an
(02:15):
eight to five vote. We were going to talk with.
Jamie Page has been covering this closely from the West
Side Current, which is a great news site. Even if
you don't live on the West Side of LA, you
ought to read it because they they jump on these
kind of stories which not only affect LA, but affect
the whole the whole state, because Wiener's bill would effect everywhere. Welcome.
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How are you, Jamie, I'm good, John, how about you?
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I was kind of surprised that this passed, that there
were at least eight eight city council people who opposed
it talk about how how this whole resolution debate went. Yeah,
it was it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Was not going to be heard that we heard early
beyond that the council President, Harris Dawson was actually going
to hold the resolution, which means it would not have
gone for a vote, and it is supposed to go
through the Assembly, so that means that hold would have
stopped us from presenting our resolution to the Assembly. Nineteen councils,
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our local councils opposed this. As you said, Council Member Lee,
it was a lot of back and forth and we were,
you know, it was unclear of what direction this was
going to take. But ultimately an eight to five vote
means that this resolution moves the Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Right because eight is a majority, it's a bare majority
because there's fifteen members. Well, the way a councilwoman, Monica
Rodriguez writes, or what she said, is she said this
could allow up to seven story buildings in areas where
transit lines are still years away. So really, if somebody's
(04:00):
in a house and the neighbor sells and developer comes,
they could put up a seven story apartment building. With
how many units in it.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Good question about the units, but drew a really important
point before is there can be multiples of these as
well too, right, which can drastically change the makeup of
a neighborhood and enough high fire danger areas, which is
a large concern. Building these apartment buildings and looking for
an exit route can become a problem in areas like
(04:32):
Monica Rodriguez's Comes Flum and Tracy Park Pacific Palisades. These
are really key details that have not been flushed out,
where as they say baked out in the Assembly, I
think also worth pointing out, and it gets a little
bit too much into the details, but to vote in
the Assembly could have killed this bill if they don't
(04:52):
move it forward. So if the Assembly voted not to
move it out of where it is right now, it
wouldn't moved forward. And I think that's part of why
Harris Dawson wanted to stall the resolution coaches.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Right before the opposition gets too organized here because this
will produce a lot of negative stories and most people
don't know this thing even exists. I mean, we've talked
about it a number of times. But and there's also
no requirement for parking so if you get a seven
story apartment building, and I know people just don't believe this,
(05:29):
they can't imagine it.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Right.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You might have been living on in your neighborhood for
fifty years and you can't imagine suddenly a big apartment
building next to you without adequate parking. But yeah, that's
exactly what will happen, and there could be another one
across the street from you. Is there a limit on
how many can be built on a block?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, there's not a limit, And that's part of what
part of the problem with this is there's not a
lot of thinking through how high, how many units that
they're going to put on, and there's actually not only
is there not a limit that's in there right now,
there's a lot of incentives for developers to build. The
closer to the to where it is, the more money
(06:10):
you get for a project. But so we could see
some really neighborhoods that will identify if the state build passes.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
And this is their thinking. You may wonder, what do
these single family neighborhoods, why do they Why are they
going to be victims just because there's a bus line
within a half mile. I'll give you an example where
I live, I'm within a half a mile of Sunset Boulevard.
Now I can't see Sunset Boulevard. I can't hear it.
It might as well be on the Moon. I'm far
enough away where Sunset Boulevard does not impact my life,
(06:45):
but there's there's bus routes on it. And because I
likely fall within that half mile zone just because there's
a rapid bus line on Sunset Boulevard, then yeah, many
of my neighbors could build these apartment buildings. God knows
what the developers will pay them for the right to
use the lot, if they're going to make that kind
of money back. And suddenly I'm looking and a certain
(07:09):
amount is going to be I'm sure a certain number
of the units will be forced to be low income housing.
And who doesn't want that in their middle class neighborhood?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Right?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, almost housing.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
That's already baked into parts of state laws already where
you have to have a certain amount of units or
else you pay a fee or fine if you don't.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
So, yeah, we've already crossed that bridge.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right I know. So it's going to if they allow
this in residential areas, you will get low income housing
people in your neighborhood, and the idea is that the
idea is you have all this this high density housing
and there's a bus line down the block, and then
you use the bus line to take you to work.
(07:53):
You see, they pack you in the apartment buildings and
then they pack you in the buses because they hate
your single family home and they hate your single family car.
And so you just follow the communist way dense housing,
bus lines, and you live the way they want you
to live.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
And think this passes, it also takes away any of
this of the local voice, so our city council won't
be able to weigh in on these projects.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Is that right? So the city council would be stripped
of any power.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Yes, that's yes. That's the biggest part of today's vote
was that this would be a state wide bill. So
if it passes, it essentially eliminates any local power that
we have.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Oh my god, this is horrific. And it actually got
five votes. And next segment, I'm going to tell everybody
who the five are. You can guess if you follow
these things. It's the socialist contingent, all right, Jamie. So
now the votes in the Assembly, well, there's way.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It's a procedural process us. But what it happens is
it goes through. It's on like our consent sort of
like our consent calendar.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
But what happens in this process is it can be
pulled much like it did and then talked about, or
it can move forward. If it doesn't get pulled and
it gets killed, as I understand it, then it's no
longer moving forward. This bill has been it's.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Tightly gone through. It went through the Senate, I believe,
on the twenty.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
One votes that it needed or the last committee.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Sorry, so it's barely squeaking through. If it doesn't, it
could be done or else. If not, it goes to
vote on I believe that's what I've been told.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The processes, yeah, yeah, and everything could change at the
moment's notice. All right, thank you very much, Jamie Page.
Of course, all right, Westside Current, Westside Current dot com.
I'll give you the names of these idiot council people,
I mean, these destructive buffoons, same people over and over
again when we come back.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
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feature on the iHeartRadio app. We have never had so
many council people in Los Angeles who absolutely hate the
(10:29):
American way of life, despise it. They are so they're
not even democrats, they're democratic socialists. This is the fringe
progressive element that has won a number of seats here
in Los Angeles and in other cities as well. The
(10:50):
things you hear about are going on in Chicago and
New York, Washington, d C. It's very similar. It's it's
it's extreme progressiveness. It's insanity, really. And this particular vote
was about a resolution so that the City Council Los
(11:11):
Angeles formerly opposes a Senate bill coming out of Sacramento
known as Senate Bill seventy nine, excreted from deep within
the bowels of Scott Wiener, and it means that somebody
could sell their their single family home in a normal
(11:33):
residential neighborhood and it can be replaced by up to
a seven story apartment building with no provisions for parking,
no provisions for how that's going to affect escape routes
in fire areas. Part of the apartment building will be
(11:54):
low income housing, and you could see what this would
do to ordinary, quot middle class, upper middle class neighborhoods.
And there's no living on how many And if you're
inside a half mile zone where there's a rail line
(12:14):
or a bus line, even if it's just a proposed
rail or bus line, that'll happen. And of course it'll
destroy your property value, which is what they want. They
want you to panic and sell your homes. And so
they could put up one hundred of these in your
neighborhood and turn it from a nice middle class neighborhood
into some chaos zone with all the low income bet
(12:39):
because they think our system is corrupt, hateful, racist, the
whole thing. No, we have no right to own property,
no right to profit from our property, no right to
a peaceful life, no right to be enjoying things like
our car, water, no pools, no lawns. I'm serious about this.
(13:04):
So the idea is to cram you into this housing project,
these apartment buildings, and then force you to walk down
the street and take a bus to work. These progressives
always want to load you on a bus or a train,
(13:26):
and they want you to live in a little tiny box.
Here are the people who support this, Nitia Ramen, who
is one of the great illegal alien homeless enablers. She
really loves homeless people. She wouldn't even put a stop
(13:48):
to people selling guns and drugs from tents in front
of elementary schools. Nit the Aramen Hugo soda. Martinez constantly
agreeming about illegal aliens and homeless people. Current price. I
(14:10):
believe he has eight to ten fell any charges against
him for corruption. And then Unices Hernandez, who has a
lot of intellectual challenges. She's another democratic socialist. And then
(14:32):
one more dunnest man on the planet, Marquise Harris Dawson.
He's somehow the city council president. I don't think he
could talk and ty his shoelace. At the same time,
he was the one who's supposedly in charge of the
city when Karen Bass ran off to Ghana. He was
supposed to be in charge. There is no record that
(14:54):
he said or did anything to prepare the city for
the winds and the fire. There is no record that
he responded in any meaningful way to the windstorm and
the fire. He is a complete dud. The only time
he's done anything that made the news is when he
banned people from cursing and hurling insults using bad language.
(15:24):
That's it, just suppressing speech. That's the only and uh,
here's some quotes. Hugo Soda. Martinez says that we have
not been responsible with our efforts to really spur housing growth.
So he wants your neighborhoods destroyed to put up seven
(15:46):
story apartment buildings. Uh, at least there's at least there
were eight. You know you need eight because there's fifteen.
There's fifteen council people, so at worst it would have
(16:07):
lost eight to seven. I guess two of the council
people didn't show up for work. I don't know, maybe
they were in jail. I can't keep track of all this,
but it's a third of the city council that would like,
really honestly, they would like to buildoze your homes, get
rid of your your stupid kids, your stupid pets, fill
your swimming pools, junk your cars, and just march you
(16:33):
into the nearest bus. That's the life that you'll have
if they ever get a majority on the city Council.
Believe me, Karen Dass probably three quarters of the way
they are herself. She just keeps quiet. More coming up. Oh,
we're going to talk to We're going to talk next
about Uh. I know what we're gonna do. I just
(16:59):
you'll have away.
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the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. All right, I
really admire there's a few writers I really hold on
the upper echelon of admiration, and one of them is
Joel Kotkin, and he is a Presidential Fellow in Urban
(17:52):
Studies at Chapman University. He's also does. He's a senior
research fellow at the University of Texas. Any writes in
a lot of publications, including Spiked online dot com. And
he's a he's been around a while, and he's a Democrat,
that's his nature. But he is so appalled by Gavin
(18:14):
Newsom's existence. He wrote a column today entitled Gavin Newsom
the Chameleon who destroyed California. And I let me just
tell you that Joe Cockin does not write incendiary things.
He's restrained, analytical. He's a scholar. He's an academic. And
(18:36):
what he does here is he lays out what he's
done to California and how very little of this is
covered by the day to day media for all the
old tired reasons we always talk about. And he's now trying,
you know, to do this this this this Twitter thing
(19:00):
where he's or his staff and I don't think he
can type by himself. His staff puts out these Trump
like announcements and all the syncopans, Oh that's really cool.
Look at that. He's mocking Trump and it's like a
bad imitation. It's what like a high school kid would do.
It's really pathetic. I don't know how They don't see
(19:21):
how pathetic it comes across. But you know in that
little bubble, Oh, look at that, he's taking it to Trump.
He's fighting. And then they had their own when they're
not imitating Trump Trump, they had their own peculiar nastiness.
And it's just no way to run a state, no
way to communicate with with the voters. He's got this
stupid redistricting idea. But here's what Katkin writes, Gavin Newsom
(19:49):
may be saddled with an awful record, but the California
governor is rapidly emerging as a leading bet in the
race for the presidential nomination in twenty twenty eight. How
is this possible? And he says the simple answer is
knew some might be the ultimate candidate for the attention
deficit generation. He's a political chameleon who changes positions compulsively,
(20:15):
not according to facts, but whatever best seems to fit
the national mood. I'll give you one example. Here he
gives several. He was one of his core issues was
climate change, and as Cockkin writes, but in April, he
basically fell on his knees before big Oil after two
(20:35):
companies said they were shutting down the California oil refineries.
He does something insanely irresponsible and stupid and dangerous, taxing
and regulating oil refineries out of business. And then when
they say, fine, we're getting out of here, it's like, oh,
what did I do? What did I do? What can
I do for you? We need oil, we need gas
(20:58):
like a child, he says, after trying to appeal to
MAGA voters. After Trump's victory, he's back to leading the resistance.
But here's what he's actually done to the state. Here's
the resume. This is what's really important, he says. The
state was once the envy of the world, but now
(21:22):
we have huge wealth concentrated in a few hands, and
we have half of America's homeless population. We have the
highest poverty rate in the US. We have the highest
unemployment rate in the US. And get this statistic, Almost
(21:43):
twenty percent of Californians live in poverty and another third
live near poverty. Add that up, that's fifty percent. Fifty
percent of the state lives near or in poverty. Do
you ever see any of this discussed in any media form?
(22:03):
How do you have half the It's the biggest state
in the Union. It's almost forty million people. We have
twenty million near or in poverty. I saw it the
other day. Only fifteen percent of the public can afford
to buy a home. It is the single worst state
Cotkin rights for creating above average paying jobs, but it's
(22:29):
number one for producing below average and low paying jobs.
California hemorrhaged one point six million above average paying jobs
in the last decade, more than twice as many as
any other state. We lost a million six above average
(22:52):
paying jobs a million six and ten years since two
thousand and eight. It created five times as many low
wage jobs as high wage jobs. Few areas have exposed
the incompetence of Newsoan's economics than energy policy. California now
has the highest energy prices in the continental United States,
(23:16):
thirty percent more than the national average because stupid green policies.
This has hugely increased day to day living costs for
poor and working families. Rising energy costs have led that
traditional blue collar jobs in construction, logistics, and manufacturing have disappeared.
(23:40):
Even there's no California metro area that ranks in the
US top ten for well paying blue collar jobs, but
four cities are in the bottom ten. Ventoria Los Angeles,
San Jose, and San Diego bottom ten for well paying
blue collar jobs. On his watch, African Americans and Latinos
(24:02):
in California perform far worse in terms of income and
homeownership than the rest of the country. Even immigrants because
there's a lack of good jobs and high housing costs,
are headed elsewhere. In the last decade, Los Angeles has
lost foreign born residents. They've been going to Houston, Dallas,
(24:24):
Wartworth in Miami. Migration to California adjusted for population is
lower than virtually any other state. I got more coming up.
This is his record, this is what he's done to us,
(24:45):
this is what he's done to you. And I'm reading
every day about a snarky tweet that some ahole and
his staff sent out, and that's cool. Look at this
indictment here. It is comprehensive. There's nothing he's touched that
hasn't turned to crap. He's destroyed the economy with his policies.
(25:08):
We got more coming up.
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Round from one until four o'clock, with the podcast posted
after four o'clock. We were talking about a piece written
by Joel Cochin. He's a Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies
at Chapman University, among other things. And he wrote a
piece for Spiked online dot com Gavin Newsom the chameleon
who destroyed California, and this is all factual stuff. Either.
(25:39):
He puts his opinion in here. He's a Democrat, but
his opinion is based on the facts I gave you,
and I'll just briefly run through them again in case
you're joining us. We have half of the homeless population
in the country. We have the highest poverty rate in
the US. We have the high unemployment rate in the US.
(26:02):
If you add up people in poverty and people near poverty,
that's fifty percent of the state. It is the worst
state for creating above average paying jobs. We've lost a
million six above average paying jobs, twice as many as
any other state. Highest energy prices in the continental US
(26:26):
thirty percent more in the national average. No California metro
area ranks at the top ten for well paying blue
collar jobs. Four are in the bottom ten. We're losing
even immigrants. We lost foreign born residents in the past decade.
They're going to Houston, Dallas, Worth in Miami, even with
(26:50):
the highest percentage of billionaires in the US. We've got
these huge budget deficits. And the states that he criticizes,
Texas and Florida, have large budget surpluses, generate more jobs,
and have introduced tax cuts. Yeah, Florida and Texas budget surpluses,
(27:14):
more jobs, tax cuts. Comparing, he says, compare this to
Newsom's bullet train farce. He refuses to kill this disastrous
high speed rail project, which devours billions of dollars of
taxpayer dollars, billions of taxpayer dollars. Its chances of being
(27:35):
finished before he grows very old is increasingly remote, and
Copkin says more far more critical infrastructure needs such as
roads and water supply, have fallen behind the wayside. He
quotes a venture capitalist Mark Andresen, who said three years
ago compared California to the late decaying Roman Empire, and
(28:02):
he says, the liberal media may ignore these issues like
they did with Joe Biden's mental deterioration, but the rest
of the country is not going to have the wool
pulled over its eyes so easily. And he says, people
here in California they know something is off. Most people
according to UC Berkeley poll say the state is headed
in the wrong direction by a two to one margin.
(28:24):
Californian see him c Newsom is more concerned with being
president than being a decent governor. Only one in three
residents than California is a good place to achieve the
American dream, and an ally Time survey found that only
fifteen percent thought California was a model other states should copy.
(28:50):
But he blusters on with his nonsense and lies and stupidity,
and now it's mimicking Trump's tweets. Now it's violating the
California constitution and redrawing the district lines because he wants
to fight Trump. I mean, he is a mental patient,
(29:11):
a narcissistic ego bag, a manipulative narcissistic psychopath, and he's
done real, real, deep damage to the state. And he's
like after Karen Dass didn't prepare for the Big fire,
(29:32):
ran off to Africa instead, is just enraging that he
is governor and that she is mayor for even another hour,
another minute, It's unbelievable. A massive incompetence, destructive in competence,
not this kind of laise faire. All well, it doesn't
really mean, no, this was aggressive incompetence and only can
(29:55):
do is have his the weirdos on his staff, right,
stupid snarky tweet, and we're supposed to go, oh wow,
look at that, Look how he fights. Oh that's so clever. Man,
you're eight years old. This is an embarrassment. You're all
gonna get in the car and you're gonna pump your
(30:16):
five dollars gas and not realize just how far the
place is gone. Huh. All right, more coming up temper
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